Sentences with phrase «higher free or reduced price lunch»

Remember than we are defining Low - Income schools as schools with 80 % or higher free or reduced price lunch.

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Roughly 183,500 free or reduced - price lunches were served at Niles North and Niles West high schools last year, district documents show.

Whether or not Congress chooses to increase reimbursements, the first step to providing resources for higher quality school meals is to ensure that federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals are used for their intended purpose — providing nutritious breakfasts and lunches to low - income school children.

In our direct education work, FoodCorps currently concentrates on schools with high rates of students from low - income households, as measured by eligibility for free or reduced - price school lunch.

Eligible high schools are those in which 50 percent or more of the students are eligible to participate in the federal free and reduced - price lunch program.

6,687 students 623 classroom teachers 10 schools (one high school, two junior highs, seven elementary) $ 188.8 million 2010 - 11 budget 1 % of students need free or reduced price lunches 97 % students are white or Asian (3 % black or Latino) 83 % of third - graders scored proficient or higher on this year's state's English test; 90 % on math exam.

Public high schools in the United States with more than 40 percent of students participating in the federal free or reduced price lunch program are eligible to apply.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

The survey sought to identify issues and successful practices in «inclusive» STEM schools — schools that serve students from groups historically under - represented in STEM fields and with a higher percentage of students who qualify for a free or reduced - price lunch (which is linked to family income)-- as opposed to «selective» STEM schools, which recruit students who have higher levels of prior achievement.

At Waiʻanae High School, one of the program sites, nearly 95 percent of students are people of color — 60 percent of those are Native Hawaiian — and roughly 70 percent of all students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch.

The 309 schools included in the study differed from other city schools in the following ways: They had a higher proportion of English Language Learners (ELL), special education, minority students, and students eligible for the Title I free or reduced - price lunch program, as well as lower average math and reading scores.

They are present for both relatively affluent and relatively disadvantaged students (with somewhat higher estimated effects for students not eligible for free or reduced - price lunches).

In a school where 80 percent of the children are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, the parents of the average child would have a 48 percent chance of selecting the teacher with a high - satisfaction and average achievement rating over the teacher with average ratings on both satisfaction and achievement.

The school characteristics include whether it is in an urban area, grade level (e.g., high school), the number of students enrolled, student - teacher ratio, the percentage of students who are eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program, the percentage of minority students, and measures of student achievement in reading and math.

More - advantaged schools — those with fewer students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch and those with higher initial student achievement — benefited the most from the program.

Although the two charter schools primarily serve African American families eligible for free or reduced - price school lunches, South Side neighborhood district schools likely experience a higher degree of disadvantage.

In this study, 27 high - poverty elementary schools (75 — 100 % eligibility for free or reduced - price lunch) were matched by prior reading achievement and poverty level and randomly assigned to one of two implementation conditions: a core treatment condition that directly replicated implementation procedures used in previous experiments, or a core treatment with structured teacher adaptations condition.

From a concentration of poverty perspective, the highest per - pupil school allocation is for schools with between 70 percent and 80 percent of students qualifying for free or reduced - price lunch, not the highest levels of poverty.

High schools that were graded A had an average of 9 percent of their students on free or reduced price lunch.

[16] The income eligibility thresholds for free and reduced - price lunches are higher than the poverty levels used in the standard allocation formulas to states and LEAs: 130 percent of the poverty line for free lunches (or $ 31,525 annually for a family of four for the 2015 - 16 school year) and 185 percent of the poverty line for reduced - price lunches (or $ 44,863 annually for a family of four for the 2015 - 16 school year).

An ANOVA indicates that responses to the six questions did not differ significantly by school level (elementary, middle, high school), school size, or characteristics of the student population (percent non-white and percent eligible for free and reduced - price lunch).

At the time, state data showed that, among Indiana schools with more than 90 percent of students receiving free or reduced price lunch, Christel House had higher test scores than every other charter school and all but a handful of traditional public schools.

In the seven schools that Rocketship operates in San Jose, Calif., the number of students who qualify for free or reduced - price lunches is as high as 92 percent, and up to 80 percent are English - language learners.

It may also be difficult to translate work done in this small school, where in any given year a quarter to 40 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, a federal measure of poverty, to larger, urban schools with higher concentrations of low - income students.

The results, largely based on standardized test performance with graduation rates and advanced course enrollment factored in, are praiseworthy given the district's challenges, high poverty (70 percent of its 345,000 students qualify for free or reduced - priced lunch), and large population of English language learners.The Education Village «includes all of the elements that make sense,» Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in the Miami Herald.

We are a high - poverty, minority - majority school in which 80 percent of our students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch and 35 percent are English learners.

A typical Partnership school is 88 percent Latino, 10 percent African - American, 30 percent English learners, 15 percent students with special needs, and 95 percent eligible for free or reduced - price lunch — all higher than district averages.

Over the last decade, the East Irondequoit Board of Education took on the challenge of providing access to college - level work in a diverse high school in which 51 % of all students receive free or reduced priced lunch.

Students from high schools with a larger number of low income students (more than 50 % eligible for free or reduced price lunch) had lower college enrollment rates than schools with mostly higher income students, regardless of the minority or geographic category that the school fell into.

This made KIPP Comienza the highest - performing school serving low - income students in all of California (90 percent of Comienza's students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch).

Located in Washington State's rural Yakima Valley, Granger High School serves 388 mostly Hispanic students, 89 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch.

From kindergarten through high school students get a state - of - the - art science education in a district where more than one third of the students are Latino, many of them English language learners, and 70 % receive free or reduced - price lunch.

Sixty - three percent of students at Quil Ceda and Tulalip are American Indian, and a high majority of students receive free or reduced - price lunch.

Top performing magnets that have a high percentage of low - income students (above 50 percent proficient in math or English): Roosevelt Senior High School Math, Science, Technology Magnet (96.6 percent free / reduced - priced lunch) Markham Middle School Health Careers Magnet (95.9 percent) Flournoy Elementary Math, Science, Technology Magnet (95.4 percent) Bethune Middle School Math, Science, Technology Magnet (95.1 percent) Fremont Senior High School Math, Science, Technology Magnet (94.6 perchigh percentage of low - income students (above 50 percent proficient in math or English): Roosevelt Senior High School Math, Science, Technology Magnet (96.6 percent free / reduced - priced lunch) Markham Middle School Health Careers Magnet (95.9 percent) Flournoy Elementary Math, Science, Technology Magnet (95.4 percent) Bethune Middle School Math, Science, Technology Magnet (95.1 percent) Fremont Senior High School Math, Science, Technology Magnet (94.6 percHigh School Math, Science, Technology Magnet (96.6 percent free / reduced - priced lunch) Markham Middle School Health Careers Magnet (95.9 percent) Flournoy Elementary Math, Science, Technology Magnet (95.4 percent) Bethune Middle School Math, Science, Technology Magnet (95.1 percent) Fremont Senior High School Math, Science, Technology Magnet (94.6 percHigh School Math, Science, Technology Magnet (94.6 percent)

I run an integrated high school, 16 percent of our kids are on free or reduced price lunch, and every one of them tomorrow who are 12th graders will walk into an international baccalaureate English class.

Interestingly, the researchers found that their group of 11 student - centered teachers had a higher proportion of poor students in their classrooms than the 11 traditional teachers did (36 percent qualifying for free or reduced price lunch vs. 24 percent).

Nampa, where 66 percent of the district's students qualify for free or reduced price lunch, has launched a series of improvement efforts including plans for a new empowerment high school that will embrace blended learning opportunities.

The professional learning communities are a safe place to have that conversation,» says Ted Howard II, principal at Garfield High School, one of 12 high schools in the highly diverse district, where students speak more than 100 languages and more than a third qualify for free or reduced - price luHigh School, one of 12 high schools in the highly diverse district, where students speak more than 100 languages and more than a third qualify for free or reduced - price luhigh schools in the highly diverse district, where students speak more than 100 languages and more than a third qualify for free or reduced - price lunch.

«Serving all students in the city, especially the highest need students requiring special education services, students who are English Language Learners, students who qualify for free or reduced - price lunch and other underserved or at - risk populations...»

It also has the highest percentage of students whose family income levels make them eligible for free or reduced price lunches.

So the 5,000 - student district — which is 49 percent Hispanic and 44 percent white, with about 25 percent qualifying for free or reduced - price lunch — decided to radically alter its high school.

And while urban schools report the highest rates of low - income students (60 percent), even in the nation's suburban schools 40 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

On almost every measure, though, ratios were worse in high - poverty schools such as Bronzeville Scholastic, where 93 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

In addition, at the national level in 2012 — 2013, the percentage of students attending high - poverty schools — those in which more than 75 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch — was higher for charter schools (36 percent) than for traditional public schools (23 percent)(National Center for Education Statistics, 2015).

Woodstock High School in Woodstock, Illinois, serves almost 2,000 students, more than 20 percent of whom are ethnic minorities and more than 25 percent of whom are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

The high school study defined vulnerable students as those who are more than two years above grade - level age in ninth grade, who failed an eighth - grade assessment test, who qualify for free or reduced - price lunches or who are eligible for special education services.

Results are provided for groups of students defined by shared characteristics — race or ethnicity, gender, eligibility for free / reduced - price school lunch, highest level of parental education, type of school, charter school, type of school location, region of the country, status as students with disabilities, and status as students identified as English language learners.

Putting ESA Funding in Context,» used a high average ESA cost that included what is called «differentiated aid,» the extra funding for students that have additional needs, such as having an Individualized Education Program or being eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

High - poverty schools have at least 75 percent of students eligible for free or reduced priced lunch and low - income schools have at least 50 percent of students eligible.

We apply the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) definition of high - minority schools as those with student populations that are more than 75 percent African American or Hispanic; similarly, in high - poverty schools, more than 75 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.